Kim started the meeting.
Mass. document was distributed. Click here for the pdf
Armin Heurich shared the American Association of School Librarians - Standards for the 21st Century Learner.
Armin shared the information to show how connections of Teacher Librarians and library curriculum may dovetail with this district work. He also likes the ISTE standards (6 standards) as compared to Massachusets standards.
Also distributed were the ISTE profiles for technology literate students. NETS-S_2007_Student_Profiles.pdf
Should we be concerned about state standards going away? As a movement towards national standards seems to be forming?
The Mass. document has clear skills expectations which is nice.
The point was made that our charge is to embed our skills within the existing curriculum. Whatever we come up with has to be usable by content (subject) area teachers.
The job of the committee is to break down the ISTE standards and proficiencies to grade level expectations, but have the experiences delivered through the subject area curriculum.
We should look at good models to use this information as we develop our local implementation.
The group decided we should adopt the ISTE Standards as our starting point and utilize what we like from the Mass. document
Are we laying out grade by grade technology skills that are minimum.
The ICSD Curriculum Database has a report feature. Curriculum chairs did a self audit of their curriculum against technology standards. Kim shared a document that she created which depicts where the ISTE standards and proficiencies occur within our local curriculum (a gap analysis).
History: Elementary teachers have raised concern about scripting where (in which unit and in which month) that technology experiences should occur. There could be highly recommended activities that integrate the technology skills and if teachers had a different place where they wanted to integrate, they could satisfy fulfilling technology skills in that unit and the Principal could be the checks and balances (the Principal could use in house resources Teacher Librarians, Technology Integration Staff Developers, Technology Mentors).
What product are we after?
ISTE Standards and Performance Indicators at the center.
Use ISTE's model student profiles.
A finer level of specificity, like the Mass document.
Standards and proficiencies need to spelled out a bit more for us in ICSD
We need to work next in small groups to examine and internalize the ISTE standards and proficiencies. We can also work to clarify what the standards and performance indicators look like at grade spans (Pk-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12).
2/22/10
4:15pm
Kim started the meeting.
Mass. document was distributed. Click here for the pdf
Armin Heurich shared the American Association of School Librarians - Standards for the 21st Century Learner.
Armin shared the information to show how connections of Teacher Librarians and library curriculum may dovetail with this district work. He also likes the ISTE standards (6 standards) as compared to Massachusets standards.
Also distributed were the ISTE profiles for technology literate students. NETS-S_2007_Student_Profiles.pdf
Should we be concerned about state standards going away? As a movement towards national standards seems to be forming?
The Mass. document has clear skills expectations which is nice.
The point was made that our charge is to embed our skills within the existing curriculum. Whatever we come up with has to be usable by content (subject) area teachers.
The job of the committee is to break down the ISTE standards and proficiencies to grade level expectations, but have the experiences delivered through the subject area curriculum.
We should look at good models to use this information as we develop our local implementation.
The group decided we should adopt the ISTE Standards as our starting point and utilize what we like from the Mass. document
Are we laying out grade by grade technology skills that are minimum.
The ICSD Curriculum Database has a report feature. Curriculum chairs did a self audit of their curriculum against technology standards. Kim shared a document that she created which depicts where the ISTE standards and proficiencies occur within our local curriculum (a gap analysis).
History: Elementary teachers have raised concern about scripting where (in which unit and in which month) that technology experiences should occur. There could be highly recommended activities that integrate the technology skills and if teachers had a different place where they wanted to integrate, they could satisfy fulfilling technology skills in that unit and the Principal could be the checks and balances (the Principal could use in house resources Teacher Librarians, Technology Integration Staff Developers, Technology Mentors).
What product are we after?
ISTE Standards and Performance Indicators at the center.
Use ISTE's model student profiles.
A finer level of specificity, like the Mass document.
Standards and proficiencies need to spelled out a bit more for us in ICSD
We need to work next in small groups to examine and internalize the ISTE standards and proficiencies. We can also work to clarify what the standards and performance indicators look like at grade spans (Pk-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12).